Filament
Every fixture is a small argument between geometry and warmth. We bend steel by hand because the material remembers the force — and the light carries that memory into every room it enters.
The Rules
We Keep.
Form Follows Force
We start with the structural load — where the weight wants to go, how the steel wants to bend. The aesthetic emerges from physics, not preference. A Filament fixture looks the way it does because it could not look any other way.
Light as Material
Glass is not a vessel for light. It is a collaborator. Each blown form is designed to do something specific to the photons passing through it — scatter, concentrate, color, fracture. The fixture is incomplete without its illumination.
The Archive That Never Was
We work from a hypothetical Bauhaus archive — the pieces they would have made if the school had survived, if the war had not come, if Mies had kept teaching. We excavate an imaginary history and make it physical.
How a Fixture
Becomes Itself.
From raw stock to installed object — the sequence that makes the work irreducible.
Raw Stock
Steel arrives in 6-metre lengths. We examine each bar for grain direction before a single cut is made. The material's history matters — how it was rolled, at what temperature, by whose hands.
The Furnace
At 1,200°C the steel becomes cooperative. We bend it once, let it cool, examine the result. If it needs correction we heat it again. There is no rushing this. The fixture will outlast every deadline.
Glass & Steel
The glass blower works from the technical drawing but interprets it. Two identical drawings produce two different globes — each one a unique volume of captured light. We do not correct for variation. We design for it.
The Work,
So Far.
Each series is a contained argument — a formal problem pursued to its only possible solution.
The Weimar Pendant
Drawn Steel / Borosilicate
The Dessau Sconce
Cold-Rolled Steel / Brass
The Gropius Arc
Spun Copper / Optical Glass
The Klee Cluster
Forged Iron / Borosilicate
The Itten Column
Patinated Bronze / Optical Glass
Every piece. Every series. Every material.
The Filament
Still Buzzing.
By the time you reach the catalog button, you are not browsing fixtures — you are entering a body of work.— Studio Filament, Berlin, 2017
You already know
what you need.
We work directly with interior architects specifying statement pieces for hotels, galleries, and private residences. Lead time: 8–14 weeks.
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